In our most recent survey about relationships, someone asked us the question (and we thought it was a good one): “How do you create a great relationship that really lasts in today’s world of throwaway’ relationships and $99 divorces?” Whew! We wanted to say to this person… Hold on a minute. Yes there are many [...]

How do you make your relationships great (or better) this year? This is a good question and based on the responses we got from a recent survey we conducted, there certainly are some interesting questions about how to create more love and connection in their lives. What we’ve discovered about creating a great relationship is [...]

For the past few weeks, we’ve been giving you some of the ways we’ve discovered that help create and keep a great relationship.We’re not just paying lip service here and reciting what we think will work or what looks good on paper. We know that these work because we practice them in our own lives. [...]

For the past two weeks, we’ve been dog-sitting for our friends’ fun-loving, gentle, yellow Labrador retriever (Nutmeg) and we’re having a ball with her. We’ve been taking Nutmeg on long walks on our city’s bike path and playing catch in the river with balls and sticks. As we’ve gone on these excursions, we’ve noticed a [...]

If you want to create more passion in your life or reclaim passion that is currently not there in your life, this article will give you some ideas. At some point in our lives we’ve all experienced total passion for life and living. We’ve all been involved in something that really got us excited and [...]

Talk about challenges! Not only did we “birth” our newest book Red Hot Love Relationships, but we put our house up for sale during this month.Getting the house ready to show to prospective buyers has been no small task because we had accumulated a lot of “stuff” over the many years we’ve lived here. So, [...]

At one of our workshops , the women in the group all agreed that they grew up with the expectation that they would be “nice” and make everyone in the family feel good. They were not taught to speak their truth but rather hide what they were thinking in order to keep the peace.Most people [...]

Are you aware that the ways you think about your love relationship can significantly affect the way you experience that relationship? What you believe and expect about yourself and your partner has everything to do with what you each actually bring to your connection (or lack thereof).So if you tend to walk around thinking about [...]

We recently saw a list of the 5 top topics that people create goals around for the new year, with weight loss leading the list. What struck us as odd was that creating better relationships wasn’t on that list! In our opinion, there is NOTHING more important than your relationships AND… The reason we hold [...]

As the new year approaches, most people think about making changes for the better in their lives–and we think you probably are doing the same. In every moment, not just at new year’s, we have the opportunity to create our relationships and our lives the way we want them to be. That certainly doesn’t mean [...]

When we get into intimate relationships and find that “perfect soulmate,” we expect that our partner will be like-minded, have similar views, like to do the same things, have the same views on raising children, and the same ideas about spending money. The reality is that we are each separate individuals, with different backgrounds, belief [...]

Have you had it with being single and alone? Are you tired of romantic encounters that either lead nowhere or lead you places you don’t want to go? Are you ready to share your life and love with the mate of your dreams? If you answered “yes,” to any of these questions then you are [...]

One of the challenges during the holiday season for many people is to actually enjoy get-togethers with family, friends, and co-workers and avoid relationship disasters. They get caught up in playing old roles and in old arguments before they realize what happened or they are so focused on “getting through the holidays” that they simply [...]

Several years ago, Susie attended a meeting of all women and one of the participants wistfully told them about the elk. According to this woman, the female elks live and raise their young in the company of other female elks. The male elks come around once a year, the females pick out the best males, [...]

You may remember as a child singing the words “This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine.” Recently, we bought Bruce Springsteen’s wonderful album and dvd “Live in Dublin” and one of the selections in this unique and compelling collection of folk songs is his version of “This Little Light of Mine.”Bruce [...]